Neos presents a collection of music from Mexican composer Arturo Fuentes, performed by the PHACE Ensemble and Ensemble Recherche. "I ran into Arturo Fuentes for the first time at IRCAM, in the late '90s. He talked to me for a long time about his passion for logic and analytic philosophy, quoting Quine and Wittgenstein. His music, which I discovered later on, did surprisingly contradict the expectations that were arisen from those discussions. Instead of the crystal-clear development and the rational see-throughness I was waiting for, I got lost in a charmingly chaotic and obsessive sound world, whose rich, frenetic textures seemed to dwell in the shadow cast by language, in the 'ineffable' evoked by Wittgenstein, that region, quoting Giorgio Agamben, where 'the language stops and the matter of words begins.'" --Mauro Lanza

Performed by ensemble Intégrales. Arturo Fuentes composes instrumental works with live electronics and literary, visual and scenic elements. In Paris he earned a doctorate in composition and a master in philosophy under the direction of Horacio Vaggione and Antonia Soulez . He attended the IRCAM-Cursus in Composition and Computer Music. He received the diplomas on guitar and music theory by the Associate Board of the Royal Schools of Music of London. In Milan he studied with Franco Donatoni and in Mexico he earned a bachelor's degree from CIEM and attended the composition workshops of Juan Trigos. His articles about composition, computer music and philosophy have been published in Mexico, Denmark, Spain, Austria and Germany. Stereo/multichannel hybrid SACD that can be played on any CD player.